In the eight years since the death of reporter Regina Martinez, Mexico has become the deadliest place in the world for the press. Now, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will reopen the investigation into her murder.
In Mexico, there was before Regina Martinez, and after.
The high-profile and widely respected investigative reporter was murdered in her home in 2012, and the gruesome crime marked the beginning of an open season on journalists. thestar.com/news/investiga…
As news of her killing made headlines around the world, her colleagues were forced to confront a startling new reality: If she wasn’t safe, no one was.
One third of all the murders of journalists worldwide took place in Mexico last year. So many reporters have been threatened, attacked, forced to go into hiding and killed that there is no consensus on the numbers. thestar.com/news/investiga…
The Cartel Project has uncovered new evidence of how Martinez's murder investigation was botched + the story she was last working on implicated allegedly corrupt politicians and connections to a notoriously violent drug cartel thestar.com/news/investiga…
Read more of @MarcoOved's full investigation - "This journalist’s brutal murder was dismissed as a robbery. Now reporters from around the world are determined to uncover the truth" - here: thestar.com/news/investiga…
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Today, the Lou Marsh will be awarded to Canada's top athlete of the year.
What should we recognize in 2020? Excellence? Survival? Resilience? Personal sacrifice? Global popularity? Or should we just be grateful we’ll get to vote at all, writes @DamoSpin. thestar.com/sports/opinion…
A virtual conference with the largest and most diverse voting committee in Lou Marsh history will take place today to determine Canada's athlete of the year.
The annual cost of groceries for the average Canadian family will go up by five per cent in 2021 — by almost $700, the largest dollar increase the report from @DalhousieU has yet predicted.
“It’s going to be a tough year,” said Sylvain Charlebois, a professor in food distribution and policy at Dalhousie University. The rise in food prices will be driven by meat, produce and bakery.
On Dec. 21, the date of the winter solstice, gas giants Jupiter and Saturn will align in the night sky and appear as a single ultra-bright light in a rare event known as the “Christmas Star.” thestar.com/news/canada/20…
It’s known as a great conjunction, and while it technically occurs every 19.6 years, scientists say the last time the two planets were this close to each other would have been in 1623. thestar.com/news/canada/20…
“It really is a once-in-a-lifetime — once-in-multiple-generations really — event,” Rachel Ward-Maxwell, a researcher-programmer in astronomy and space sciences at the Ontario Science Centre, says. thestar.com/news/canada/20…
#Breaking: Hundreds of thousands of doses of a new COVID-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer/BioNTech will arrive in Canada before the end of December, possibly allowing an national vaccination campaign to begin earlier than announced. thestar.com/politics/feder…
The vaccine still requires Health Canada’s approval, which has not yet been granted. thestar.com/politics/feder…
On Monday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, along with Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, the vaccine commander he named last week, and his procurement minister Anita Anand, told reporters the first shipment is expected imminently. thestar.com/politics/feder…
#Breaking: Ontario needs better consumer oversight on everything from condos and coffins to cannabis: auditor general thestar.com/politics/provi…
Some key findings:
- 80% of cannabis remains in black market
- GO Trains are delayed “more often than necessary” by information technology glitches at Metrolinx
- There is no formal process at the Ministry of Education for updating school curricula
Another big issue? Risks for condo owners. “We found developer-set condo fees increased as much as 30 per cent in the first two years after the condo’s registration, and as much as 50 per in the five years prior to (last) August." thestar.com/politics/provi…
Shawn, 38, has been laid off twice as a bar manager in the pandemic. Once in the first wave, now the second. He's now working as an Uber driver to make ends meet. He has also accumulated $10,000 in debt. #MillennialMoneythestar.com/business/perso…
Renting in downtown Toronto, Shawn says he's barely able to make ends meet, taking in $2,000 in a good work month. Here are his monthly expenses: thestar.com/business/perso…